AT THE PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 28 October 1941, Page 2

AT THE PICTURES

+■ Majestic.—Finally To-night: Mickey Rooney, Lewis stone and Ann Rutherford in “Andy Hardy's Private Secretary.” Commencing Wednesday, "The Trial of Mary Dugan.” The story brings a new romantic team together with Robert Young and Laraine Day, as well as all the excitement of a play that ran for twelve months on Broadway. In the title role. Miss Day tops her dramatic achievements in “Foreign Correspondent” and "The Bad Man." Norman Z. McLeod, who directed, has captured all the suspense in the tensely exciting story. It deals with a girl who runs away from a reformatory and attempts to rehabilitate herself. She . wins the gratitude of her employer and ' the love of a young lawyer. Even she has forgotten the past when fate steps in and involves her in a murder. She stands trial for the crime and appears to be doomed to the gallows. Comedy relief is furnished by Marjorie Main, as a hardbitten apartment house manager, and Marsha Hunt, as a burlesque dancer. Other favourites include Tom Conway, John Litel, Sara Haden and Henry O'Neill. state.—commencing weanescay: sue "Chan” thriller, "Dead Men Tell" and The j Crazy Gang in “All’s Hutton Afloat,” star- ; ring Flanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, j Naughton and Gold. Against a back- ; ground of a treasure hunt-bound boat, and a bathosphere which becomes a killer’s ; coffin. Chan meets his most desperate adversary—a ghost! The audience as well as Chan is baffled by the mysterious murder of a descendant of the 18th century pirate chief, “Black Hook” Nodbury. who left 60.000,000 dollars worth of loot. And the appearance of his ghost doesn't make things easier. For a while it looks as if supernaturalism is going to be too much i for the abilities of the Chinese sleuth and cut short his career. With Sen Yung, Chan’s son, walking a plank in true pirate fashion, and his father stalked by a desperate cold-blooded killer, the atmosphere becomes tense as the picture surges to its I unexpected climax. When Sheila Ryan ; and Robert Weldon, who provide the , romance in the film, are arrested for the death of an escaped killer, it looks as if | the mystery is solved. But as far as I Charlie is concerned, it has only just j begun. i Regent.—Now Showing: Holiday double I j feature, “Money and the Woman" and ' “Secret Evidence.” In the former Jeffre\ 1 1 Lynn. Brenda Marshal and Roger Prior are j {starred. This thriller provides a j l new kind of mystery concerning : the desperate attempt to loot a bank ! I and the subsequent exposure of the guilty | ) persons. In the second feature Marjorie ; Reynolds and Charles Quigley are seen in . ja clever dramatic story of a man’s love for his family yet torn between love of his I i duty. 1